Homebrew PCBs

Hi Jim,

I guess you could remove the platform and cut it on a table saw, but 
you would have to do quite a bit more disassembling. I thought it was 
going to be much harder to cut the platform than it really was with 
the dremel, but it might indeed be faster to take the platform out vs 
masking and cleaning up after the cut. Since I don't have a table 
saw, I did it my way. Your way would be much neater and more 
professional looking - go for it!

With regard to the sensors, you could probably lower the center of 
the platform and have the mpfs and the pis work, but you would need 
to add the exit sensor somewhere since it is on the back of the fuser 
and cannot be used in this position. In fact the mpfs and the pis 
could be mounted on the front of the printer and work via notches in 
the carrier, although I would be careful about notches hanging up on things.

I think you should bite the bullet and use the mcu. The Atmel Studio4 
is free, the ATAVRISP2 in circuit programmer is $35 from Digikey, and 
you're all set.

I can send you a programmed board, though it will not be able to do 
ds boards since I'm still working on that. If you want one, contact 
me off list with your address - it should be about $5 USD which you 
can pay via Paypal or mo or check, whichever is easier for you.

Mark









At 09:22 PM 5/21/2010, you wrote:

> > also probably older than anyone on the list.
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> > I'm 68.
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> > Leon
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>Lord Leon - you're older than dirt!!!  Since I just turned 63 as of 
>this May, I'm a youngster {grinning}
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>Ken H>
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>I'm dirtier than Leon ... I ran past 70 last year ...
>I also have disassembled my E260D all the way down and am about to 
>cut the plastic paper platform ...
>Does it make sense to remove the entire paper platform and cut it 
>with my table saw?
>Mark, is there room to just lower the cut portion of the paper 
>platform and still use the built-in sensors ...
>Will a programed MPU plus PCB be available ? ... I have downloaded 
>ALL 115 mega-bytes of the IDE
>... seems to be over kill just to load the boot loader and short 
>program for the AtTiny15 ...
>Jim KI6MZ
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